New-York tribune., 1887-05-16

hot coffee. rho icc-w6tcr fountains arc good
ttifgs but Hike other enterprises Of charitable
nat,re they must be kept running BY private con-
tributions.
uoyernor Hill hos bills before him increasing
the pay Of certain police officials In New-York ana
BROOKLYN Any person can safely wager ten dol
1ars to o cent that there VIII be no veto of these
measures on tho ground Of special" legislation
The Vienna press denies the statement Of Prince
Bismarcks official journal that there was secret
understanding between Austria and Russia Win
regard to Bosnia before the last campaign with
Turkey. 1t publishes budget Of diplomatic
correspondence for the purpose of proving that
Count Andrassy constantly declined to allow him.
self to be drawn into secret agreements with Rus
sia and that the occupation Of Bosnia and the Her
zegovlna was not favored by the Northern Power
at the Congress Of Berlin. The argument Is not
altogether convincing since the two Emperors
may have had secret understanding without
Count Andrassy's intervention and naturally
Russia at the close of the campaign would noC
have made an ostentatious display OF her willing
ness to have the bargain carried OUT III there
were o secret understanding that Austria should
have two provinces in return for neutrality, hus-
sia would have expected her partner TO selze the
spoils at the right time, but would not have been
dspleased if Bosnia and the Herzegovina had
remained under Turkish control. The most serious
objection that can be urged against the German
account of the secret treaty is the fact that the
Cars troops halted outside Constantinople. IL
Austria had been provided for in advance, why
was not the city occupied? 1t seems hardly credl-
bio that Lord BeacOnsfeld could have succeeded
in frightening tho Russians with his Sepoys II
La1.. nlaacnA
Mr. Garland is ready for another yindicatloD
from "part san aspersious.7 He is quite willing to
quit the Cabinet IL he can be kicked upstairs lhto
the Supreme Court.
The Assembly has passed ridiculous Dill 10 pro-
vide O small steamboat TO patrol New-fork HarDor
to enforce the laws against dumping garbage etc'
Since the Democrats came in power they have
been provided with an additional shore inspector,
and have more than doubled the expense OF watch
inz the harbor. Now they are to be allowed a
steamboat. There is enough law now, Federal
and State, concerning dumping in the harbor and
its approaches, without adding to it. And There
is no need of increasing the expense for that pur
pose.
Land Commissioners Sparks h making record
us "rcfomcr' at terrible cost to the pioneers IN
the West He transacts the business OF The Lana
Office on the un-American principle that every
man il guilty who does not prove himself innocent
Every man who wants homestead on the ponVeal
domain is assumed by Sparks to be tblef and
perjurer until he proves himself to be Otherwise
AS a result OF this policy there are 2Oo'OOo en-
tries under the homestead, pre-empton and tlmoer-
culture laws pending in the Land Once. AT Ine
rate Sparks is dlspOsing OF these claims IL Will
take sixty years to get through them' TO say
nothing of new entries. Sparks Would prefer
that POS. .O0O pioneers should suffer unto death
rather than he should lose ono chance to pose as
a reformer Sparks and Black arc two fair speci-
mems of the product Of Mugwump politics.
So "Tom7 Gould has been allowed to 60 free
after undergoing a weeks imprisonment 'IWould
have done no harm to have kept him In JAIL tor d
month But the majesty of the law has been vlndi-
Gated and Gould has been Inundated. Probably ne
Will not soon again appear in the role OF law
breaker
Assuredly part Ill. of the General Sessions mas
given ample reason for its existence already. In
fact tho necessity for IL had long been apparent.
Fifteen cases daily have been disposed OF in two
months. and there Is chance that all the untried
indictments viii be cleared off by and by. This
is a cheering prospect for everybody except people
who have given bail with the idea that they had
thereby secured immunity from trial.
Tho fact that no one Of the 12s Assembgmen
at Albany can feel quite sure that in tho mldsV
of his most eloquent speech section OF the ceiling
VIII not descend upon his head. clothes the buSi-
ness Of law-naldng with more than ordinary
solcmnity. Now If the Superintendent OF the
Capitol could only get all the members OF the
third house together in the Assembly Chamber
and induce the portions Of the ceiling tnat insist
upon falling to place themselves where they would
do most good-but the reader will catch our idea